This workshop besides being a professional and educational experience will offer the people attending it a chance to get into contact with a very special reality, Palazzolo Acreide and its wonderful feast of St. Sebastiano, the Saint to whom the town is strongly devoted to and whose veneration dates back to many centuries ago. The feast has a double date January 20th (only religious functions) and August 10th (religious functions plus a festival with an outdoor audience, shows of exceptional beauty. The summer date has replaced the “Madonna Odigitria” feast which celebrated the wheat harvest. For this reasons the same date was chosen to celebrate the outdoor feast of St. Sebastiano. Alongside the old tradition that mark the feast, new rituals and enterprises have been organized in order to enlarge its fame outside the border. It lasts 10 days and includes lots of moving and fantastic events such as St. Sebastiano’s Eve (August 9th),
you can see the Saints official going around of the town and the casting off of his veil.